/*
 * Copyright 2011 Luis Atencio
 * 
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
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 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
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 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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package net.rt.io;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Interface for all property reading strategies. At a low level, all properties will read into
 * strings.
 * 
 * @author Luis Atencio
 *
 */
public interface Strategy {

	/**
	 * Parse properties from file and populate this map with the 
	 * property key (or XPath) and the value
	 * 
	 * @return Key-value pairs
	 */
	Map<String, String> bindProperties();
	
}
